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West Midlands Serious Crime Squad

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I've listed this article for peer review because it has considerable importance as one of the worst examples of systemic abuse by UK police; I have much expanded it but need some feedback about how to get it to a decent level.

Thanks, Jim Killock (talk) 12:45, 28 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by Catrìona

This is just my impression from a very quick look. Since this article contains contentious material about living people, it's important that all facts are referenced with a citation at the end of each paragraph. In addition, you need to use ref={{sfnref|publisher|date}} with some of your citations (those with no author) in order to make the sfn template link properly (see my article Escape of Viktor Pestek and Siegfried Lederer from Auschwitz for examples).

The lede needs to be edited to fit MOS:LEDE (no more than four paragraphs). Some of the sections are quite short; consider adding information or merging sections. (Sometimes it is suitable to have a paragraph on each subtopic, rather than different sub-sub sections.) I suggest that you split off the lists into a different article, perhaps List of West Midlands Serious Crime Squad cases. Catrìona (talk) 05:57, 9 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Catrìona, I have made most of those changes including moving the lists to a new page, shortening the lede and merging sections and adding information. I will do the citations later, this is simple enough. If anyone has further feedback I would be very grateful. Jim Killock (talk) 11:25, 11 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think I have done what I can here. All the references seem to be working on this page. I have further merged sections and removed subheadings. Does anyone else have feedback? Jim Killock (talk) 16:13, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@JimKillock: Sorry that no one has replied to this PR for awhile. I would just go ahead and nominate for Good article nominations, where there are more reviewers. You might also consider requesting a copyedit from the Guild of Copy Editors. b uidhe 08:40, 25 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]